Ex-Financial Times Journalist Tom Foremski @ the Collision of Technology and Media

Newswatch 7.23.07: HP buys Opsware

[TopTechNews] HP paid $14.25 a share in stock for Opsware, a 39 percent premium on the pre-announcement stock price. It's especially good for founder Marc Andreessen. The Netscape creator will pick up a cool $138 million in the deal, on the basis of his ownership of 9.7 million shares.

[InfoWorld] Later this year, Intel will help server network interfaces take advantage of the major recent advances in datacenters: multiprocessor systems, multicore processors, and virtualization. The company unveiled at Cisco Systems' Networkers user conference a pair of chips for server network cards or motherboards.

[Computerworld] The tool, which is aimed at taking on Google Inc.'s Analytics product, will allow users to segment Web traffic by both age and gender. Microsoft will get the demographic data from users' Live ID profiles.

[InfoWorld] One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) moved a step closer to providing low-cost laptops to children in developing nations by giving the go-ahead to the mass production of its XO laptop. However, the computers are expected to be out in October, one month later than originally planned.

[TechCrunch] Hi5 is now ranked as the 11th most popular site online above Facebook at 13th. If you’ve never heard of the site though, there is a reason; most of Hi5’s traffic doesn’t come from the United States. Hi5 is the No. 1 ranking site online in Portugal, Ecuador, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.